http://uatoday.tv/politics/paul-grod-ukrainian-canadian-congress-president-435677.html === Canada has been the staunchest pro-Ukrainian advocate on the international level, says Paul Grod Ukraine Today talks to with Paul Grod, President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and Vice President of the Ukrainian World Congress. “Canada has been Ukraine’s, I would say, steadfast supporter through the Maidan Revolution and now during this war that [&hellip

SOURCE: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/why-canada-needs-a-magnitsky-law-to-deal-with-human-rights-violators/article24879765/ IRWIN COTLER Contributed to The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Jun. 10, 2015 3:00AM EDT Last updated Tuesday, Jun. 09, 2015 5:32PM EDT Irwin Cotler is the Liberal MP for Mount Royal, former justice minister and attorney-general of Canada, and professor of law emeritus at McGill University. He is chairman of the Justice for [&hellip

UCC APPLAUDS APPROVAL BY HOUSE OF COMMONS FOR MAGNITSKY TYPE SANCTIONS AGAINST PUTIN REGIME OTTAWA – MARCH 26, 2015. The Ukrainian Canadian Congress commends the unanimous adoption by the House of Commons yesterday of a motion by the Honourable Irwin Cotler, M.P., to implement sanctions against human rights abusers. The so-called Magnitsky sanctions mirror those implemented [&hellip

http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/publications/reports/human-rights-abuses-in-russia-occumpied-crimea The “green men” who fanned out across Crimea in early 2014, establishing control over key infrastructure and clearing the way for once-marginal political actors to seize the reins of power, were the vanguard of a forced political change that has led to grave human rights abuses across the Crimean peninsula. Firmly in control of the executive and law enforcement [&hellip

MPP Baker Calls on Federal Government to Supply Defensive Weapons to Ukraine For immediate release March 16, 2015. On March 11, 2015 MPP Yvan Baker (Etobicoke Centre), rose at Queen’s Park and called on the Government of Canada to “provide Ukraine with defensive weapons, equipment and training it needs to defend its territorial integrity”. Mr. [&hellip

SOURCE: https://news.vice.com/article/it-is-a-government-crime-the-coffins-of-russias-ghost-soldiers-in-ukraine-are-coming-home By Lucy Kafanov March 3, 2015 | 5:49 am At half past six in the morning, on September 2, a captain from Russia’s 106th Guards Airborne Division arrived at the outskirts of a remote village in the Samara region, a triangular stretch of southern Russia between the Volga River and Kazakhstan. He had [&hellip

Date: 20 February 2015 For immediate release SENATOR ANDREYCHUK COMMEMORATES VICTIMS OF THE MAIDAN Rising in the Senate on 19 February 2015, Senator Andreychuk commemorated the first anniversary since the mass shooting of Euromaidan protesters on the streets of Kyiv, Ukraine. “Between February 18th and 20th, 2014, Special Forces under the command of President [&hellip